#150 Years Retold

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Happy Indigenous Heritage Month!

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology ed by Shane Hawk and Theodore C Van Alst Jr

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, and Daniel Sousa

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliot

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Feed by Tommy Pico

The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor

Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study by Michael A Sheyahshe

This Place: 150 Years Retold ed by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

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35 Non-fiction Graphic Novels by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis & Gianluca Costantini

Nat Turner by Kyle Baker

The Talk by Darrin Bell

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

I’m a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De la Cruz

Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao

Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Joel Christian Gill and Ibram X. Kendi

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Man, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito: a Graphic Memoir by Shing Yin Khor

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, and Ko Hyung-Ju

In Limbo by Deb J.J. Lee

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer

Steady Rollin': Preacher Kid, Black Punk and Pedaling Papa by Fred Noland

Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore

Kwändǖr by Cole Pauls

Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez

Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh

A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-Won

Death Threat by Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee

Palimpsest: Documents From A Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Dawud Anyabwile, and Derrick Barnes

The High Desert by James Spooner

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker

Feelings by Manjit Thapp

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Ronald Wimberly and Braham Revel

[imaginefinneganswake]

The fall (bababadalgharaghttakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy.

Finnegan’s Wake - James Joyce

ChatGPT40 explanation:

This passage from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake—specifically, "The fall (bababadalgharaghttakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy."—is both famous and complex, characteristic of Joyce’s dense, multi-layered style. Let’s break this down for university students:

Overview

This passage appears early in Finnegans Wake and sets the tone for the entire novel, which is concerned with cycles of history, storytelling, and myth. The text is notoriously difficult, blending languages, sounds, and references from mythology, history, and religion. This particular passage references one of the central themes of Finnegans Wake: the fall��whether it be the fall of man (in a biblical sense), the fall of civilizations, or the cyclical rise and fall of individuals and nations.

Breaking It Down:

“The fall (bababadalgharaghttakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!)”:

The phrase “The fall” is a central theme of this passage and the novel as a whole. It likely refers to multiple falls:

The Fall of Man from the Bible (Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden).

The fall of empires or civilizations.

The fall of characters in personal or mythical stories.

The cyclical nature of human downfall and renewal.

The long, almost unpronounceable word inside the parentheses is a portmanteau—a combination of many words, sounds, and meanings. This gigantic word mimics the sound of thunder, signifying something cataclysmic, like a crash or fall. Joyce called this the "thunderword," and it is repeated in different forms throughout the novel, symbolizing pivotal moments of collapse or transformation.

This word blends multiple languages and references:

"bababadal" can suggest Babel from the Bible, symbolizing the confusion of language and human downfall.

"bronntonnerronntuonn" and other syllables seem to mimic the sound of thunder or an explosion, a symbolic rendering of catastrophic events.

The word also reflects the Tower of Babel, which fell because of linguistic confusion, tying into Joyce's exploration of language's instability.

“of a once wallstrait oldparr”:

“wallstrait” refers to something that was once strong and unbending, like a wall or fortification. It suggests the collapse of something firm and enduring, perhaps an ancient civilization, a historical figure, or a social structure.

“oldparr” could be an allusion to Old Parr, reputedly the oldest man in England (who supposedly lived to be over 150 years old). This character might symbolize longevity, tradition, or a connection to the past. However, even he eventually falls, suggesting that no matter how strong or enduring something may seem, it will ultimately face decline or death.

“is retaled early in bed and later on life”:

“Retaled” is a play on “retold,” meaning this fall or collapse is part of the endless cycle of history and myth, retold again and again. The pun on "retail" also suggests that history is sold, exchanged, or commodified.

“early in bed” could refer to bedtime stories or oral traditions that pass down stories of the past. It might also signify the storytelling nature of human life, where legends and histories are passed down informally, often before sleep.

“later on life” could refer to how these stories influence us throughout life, shaping our understanding of history and identity. It reflects how history and myth are interwoven into our lived experience, guiding our sense of destiny or morality.

“down through all christian minstrelsy”:

“Christian minstrelsy” evokes the tradition of medieval minstrels, who would sing ballads and stories, often with Christian themes. This phrase suggests that the story of the fall has been passed down through Christian history, becoming part of the cultural memory preserved in songs, stories, and religious teachings.

The reference to Christianity places this fall within the grand narrative of Christian theology, particularly the fall of Adam and Eve, but also the fall of kings, empires, and even Christ’s death and resurrection.

How to Explain This to University Students:

The Theme of the Fall:

This passage is about cycles of rise and fall—whether it be an individual, a civilization, or humanity itself. Joyce is deeply concerned with the cyclical nature of history, where empires rise, fall, and rise again.

The fall of "wallstrait oldparr" evokes the collapse of something once strong, but it also implies renewal. Joyce was influenced by Vico’s theory of history, which suggests that societies go through cyclical patterns of growth and decay.

Joyce’s Language Play:

The massive “thunderword” is an example of Joyce’s love of wordplay. It’s not meant to be read in a traditional sense but rather experienced as a sound effect, conveying the idea of a monumental crash or fall.

Joyce combines sounds from different languages, creating a universal moment of destruction that mirrors the confusion of Babel, the thunderclap of Thor, or the collapse of ancient civilizations. This shows how Joyce layers multiple meanings into single words, making his text a deeply multilingual, intertextual experience.

The Oral Tradition and Retelling of Stories:

The idea that the fall is “retaled early in bed” suggests that it’s part of the oral tradition—stories passed down from generation to generation. In Joyce’s world, history is always being retold, reshaped, and reinterpreted.

The fall is also “later on life,” showing that these stories shape not just childhood but our understanding of history and society as adults. These cycles of storytelling reinforce the mythical and eternal nature of human experience.

Christian Imagery:

The reference to Christian minstrelsy places the story within the Christian tradition of storytelling, where the fall of man, as well as other collapses (such as the fall of empires or figures), is a central theme. Joyce is constantly engaging with religion, history, and myth, showing how they shape human culture.

Big Ideas for Students:

Cyclical History: Finnegans Wake suggests that human history is not linear but cyclical. We rise and fall, civilizations collapse and are reborn, and individuals face moments of triumph and downfall in endless cycles.

Language as a Vessel for Meaning: Joyce uses language as more than a tool for communication—he pushes it to its limits, creating words that blend multiple meanings, sounds, and references. His language becomes multisensory, asking readers to engage not just with the meaning of words but with their sound and texture.

Storytelling and Tradition: The passage shows how stories are passed down through generations, from oral traditions to Christian minstrels, and how these stories shape our understanding of the world and our place in it.

Encourage students to engage with the sound, rhythm, and flow of Joyce’s language and to appreciate how his text blurs the boundaries between myth, history, and personal experience. Finnegans Wake is about the universal cycles of human experience—our falls, our rises, and how we retell these stories across time.

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Another crosspost from my Instagram! Full titles under the cut if you can't make them out

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

This Place: 150 Years Retold by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Katherena Vermette, et al

Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

The Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett (The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, and The Shepherd's Crown)

Nervous Conditions by Tsiti Dangarembga

Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by Kai Cheng Thom and Kai Yun Ching

[alightinthelantern]

Books read and movies watched in 2023 (July to December):

Bolded verdicts (Yes!/Yes/Eh/No/NO) are links to more in-depth reviews! Should you watch/read them?

Books (fiction):

The Starless Sea (Erin Morgenstern): No

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina (Zoraida Córdova): Yes

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley): No

The Association of Small Bombs (Karan Mahajan): No

Pond (Claire-Louise Bennett): NO

Heaven (Mieko Kawakami): No

The Verifiers (Jane Pek): No

The Old Capital (Yasunari Kawabata): No

Falling Man (Don DeLillo): No

A Free Life (Ha Jin): Yes

People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks): No

The Spectacular (Fiona Davis): No

Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro): Yes

Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Sahar Delijani): No

This Place: 150 Years Retold (anthology): Yes

Books (nonfiction):

The Forgetting River (Doreen Carvajal): Eh

Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II (Lena S. Andrews): Yes

Mozart's Starling (Lyanda Lynn Haupt): Yes

Poetic Form & Poetic Meter (Paul Fussell): No

Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (David Mason & John Frederick Nims): No

A Poetry Handbook (Mary Oliver): Yes

We Should Not Be Friends (Will Schwalbe): No

Seen from All Sides (Sydney Lea): No

Books (poetry):

Afterworlds (Gwendolyn MacEwen): Eh

Sailing Alone Around the Room (Billy Collins): Yes

Be With (Forrest Gander): No

Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (William Carlos Williams): Yes

Horoscopes For the Dead (Billy Collins): No

The Wild Iris (Louise Gluck): Eh

Moon Crossing Bridge (Tess Gallagher): Yes

Who Shall Know Them? (Faye Kicknosway): Yes

Great Blue (Brendan Galvin): No

Collected Poems (Basil Bunting): Eh

Paterson (William Carlos Williams): No

Selected Poems (Donald Justice): No

Dear Ghosts, (Tess Gallagher): No

The Death of Sitting Bear (N. Scott Momaday): No

Evidence (Mary Oliver): No

What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? (Robert Bly): Yes

Blessing the Boats (Lucille Clifton): Yes

Source (Mark Doty): No

Tell Me (Kim Addonizio): Eh

Zoo (Ogden Nash): No

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (Lisel Mueller): No

“A” (Louis Zukovsky): NO

Flying at Night (Ted Kooser): Yes

The Man in the Black Coat Turns (Robert Bly): Yes

This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years (Robert Bly): No

Nine Horses (Billy Collins): Yes

Arabian Love Poems (Nizar Kabbani): Yes

Delights & Shadows (Ted Kooser): Yes

This Great Unknowing (Denise Levertov): Yes

Young of the Year (Sydney Lea): No

Pursuit of a Wound (Sydney Lea): No

The Life Around Us (Denise Levertov): No

Red List Blue (Lizzy Fox): No

It Seems Like A Mighty Long Time (Angela Jackson): No

Some Ether (Nick Flynn): Yes

Divide These (Saskia Hamilton): No

The Simple Truth (Philip Levine): No

Saving Daylight (Jim Harrison): Eh

Midnight Salvage (Adrienne Rich): No

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Billy Collins): Eh

My Brother Running (Wesley McNair): Eh

Whale Day (Billy Collins): Eh

Talking Dirty to the Gods (Yusek Komunyakaa): No

A New Selected Poems (Galway Kinnell): No

The Dolphin (Robert Lowell): No

Star Route (George Longenecker): No

Brute (Emily Skaja): Eh

No Witnesses (Paul Monette): Yes!

Blood, Tin, Straw (Sharon Olds): No

Town Life (Jay Parini): No

Dead Men's Praise (Jacqueline Osherow): No

Stag's Leap (Sharon Olds): No

Sleeping with the Dictionary (Harryette Mullen): No

Looking for the Parade (Joan Murray): No

Sparrow (Carol Muske-Dukes): Yes

You can't Get There from Here (Ogden Nash): No

Carver: a Life in Poems (Marilyn Nelson): Yes

The House of Blue Light (David Kirby): No

Ariel (Sylvia Plath): No

Caribou (Charles Wright): No

The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke: No

Letters from Maine (Mary Sarton): No

Diasporic (Patty Seyburn): Eh

The Five Stages of Grief (Linda Pastan): Yes!

Not One Man’s Work (Leland Kinsey): Yes

Wise Poison (David Rivard): Yes

The Continuous Life (Mark Strand): Eh

On the Bus with Rosa Parks (Rita Dove): Yes

Fuel (Naomi Shihab Nye): Yes

Ludie’s Life (Cyntha Rylant): Yes

Wise Poison (David Rivard): Yes

My Name on His Tongue (Laila Halaby): Yes

Messenger (Ellen Bryant Voigt): Yes!

Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems (Mahmoud Darwish): Eh

The Collected Poetry of James Wright: No

The Unlovely Child (Norman Williams): No

The New Young American Poets (anthology, 2000): Yes

The Black Maria (Aracelis Girmay): Yes!

Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Ocean Vuong): Yes!

Thoughts of Her. (Casey Conte): NO

Standing Female Nude (Carol Ann Duffy): Yes!

The Tradition (Jericho Brown): Yes

Girls That Never Die (Safia Elhillo): No

Repair (C. K. Williams): No

The Big Smoke (Adrian Matejka): Yes

American Wake (Kerrin McCadden): Eh

Collected Poems (Jane Kenyon): No

E-mails from Scheherazad (Mohja Kahf): Yes!

I Had a Brother Once (Adam Mansbach): No

Holding Company (Major Jackson): No

Hunting Down the Monk (Adrie Kusserow): No

Happy Life (David Budbill): No

Prelude to Bruise (Saeed Jones): No

Wade in the Water (Tracy K. Smith): Eh

Penury (Myung Me Kim): Yes!

Commons (Myung Mi Kim): Yes!

The Final Voicemails (Max Ritvo): No

Pieces of Air in the Epic (Brenda Hillman): No

Gone (Fanny Howe): No

A Vermonter's Heritage: Listening to the Trees (Rick Bessette): No!

Roget's Illusion (Linda Bierds): No

First Hand (Linda Bierds): No

The Other Side (Julia Alvarez): No

Pig Dreams: Scenes from the life of Sylvia (Denise Levertov): Yes

Movies:

Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov): Yes

My Tender and Affectionate Beast (A Hunting Accident) [1978, Emil Loteanu]: No

Fate of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk): Eh

Ordinary Fascism (aka Triumph Over Violence) (1965, Mikhail Romm): Yes

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985, Gerald Bezhanov): Yes

Gals/The Girls (1961, Boris Bednyj): Yes

Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa): Yes

Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa): No

Viy (1967, Konstantin Yershov/Georgi Kropachyov): No

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein): Yes

Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini): Yes!

Charade (1963, Stanley Donen): No

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa): Yes!

Barton Fink (1991, Coen Brothers): No

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967, Leonid Gaidai): No

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974, Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi): Yes

By the White Sea (2022, Aleksandr Zachinyayev): Yes

Ivan’s Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky): Yes!

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed): Yes!

The Kitchen in Paris (2014, Dmitriy Dyachenko): No

Optimistic Tragedy (1963, Samson Samsonov): Eh

White Moss (2014, Vladimir Tumayev): Yes

Oppenheimer (2023, Christopher Nolan): Yes!

Scarlet Sails (1961, Alexandr Ptushko): Yes

We'll Live Till Monday (1968, Stanislav Rostotsky): Yes

Vladivostok (2021, Anton Bormatov): No

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray): Yes

The Theme (1979, Gleb Panfilov): Yes

A Haunting in Venice (2023, Kenneth Branagh): Yes

Barbie (2023, Greta Gerwig): Yes

Is It Easy To Be Young? (1986, Juris Podnieks): Yes

Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick: Yes

Satyricon (1969, Federico Fellini): No

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog): Yes

Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog): No

The Illusionist (2006, Neil Burger): Yes

The Duchess (2008, Saul Dibb): Yes

Pride & Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright): Yes!

Emma (1996, Douglas McGrath): No

And here’s Part 1 of my 2023 list!

[valyrra]

I'm so confused why my brain is so stupid. Like I am struggling to get a bachelor's degree and I'm going to be 25 years old in 2 days. And then my brain goes to a 150% mod just to talk about video game lore. I have just retold my boyfriend the whole lore about Orcs relocating to Azeroth and like in all details within 3 hours. Non stop nerd narrative. I think sometimes like if I was actually interested in studying I could've achieved so much but I'm like fuck off im not studying your boring shit

And then it becomes a problem for 7 years of my life

[peraltasass]

books i read in 2022

✩✩✩✩✩ - ★★★★★

Fiction:

Myth Retold: Iphigenia by Winter J. Kiakas: ★★★★✩ (cute!)

Heroes by Stehen Fry: ★★★✩✩ (too much whitewashing)

Loveless by Alice Oseman: ★★★★✩ (was frustrated that at the end, only one type of friendship (deep, intense, emotional) was once again posited as the “right” type of friendship to have)

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩ (read these once when I was like 12?)

Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩

The Wave by Morton Rhue aka Tedd Strasser: ★★✩✩✩ (ik it’s like a big thing but. the writing didn’t catch me at all - maybe it was the translation or maybe it is just not as well written as claimed)

Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩ (ah yes, we all know that girls saying no to love = saying no to men)

Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩ (just stop it with the jealousy between girls jfc)

Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩ (didn’t remember the ending at all, was surprised by how okay I was with it)

we are the ants by Shaun David Hutchinson: ★★★✩✩/★★★★✩ (am incredibly indecisive about how I feel about this one. made me feel more feeling that I thought at first but also frustrated me quite a lot)

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes: ★★★★✩ (very powerful, I only have tiny notes)

Ulysses by James Joyce: ★★✩✩✩ (I don’t cARE if it’s the bEsT nOvEl Of ThE 20th cEnTuRy, I did NOT have a good time)

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao: ★★★½✩ (I hate to say it but it was too much like Percy Jackson for most of the main part)

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus: ★★★½✩ (did get me eventually; as someone who wrote their ba thesis on the breakfast club it was nice to see the stereotypes deconstructed but also frustrating at times)

Ausser Sich by Sasha Marianna Salzmann: ★★★½✩ (VERY overwhelming at times, but also intensely powerful)

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender: ★★★★✩ (cute)

Die Götter müssen sterben by Nora Bendzko: ★★★★★ (my new fav book)

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters: ★★★★✩

Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa: ★★★✩✩ (for uni)

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater: ★★★★★ (re-read)

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater: ★★★★★ (re-read)

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater: ★★★★★ (re-read)

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater:  ★★★★✩ (re-read, still the least good of all of them)

I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman: ★★★★✩ (cute quick and easy read)

Non fiction:

A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Dunham: ★★★★✩ (for uni)

Wir können mehr sein by Aminata Touré: ★★★½✩

Und jetzt Du by Tupoka Ogette: ★★★★★ (@German white people: READ THIS)

Read This to Get Smarter by Blair Imani: ★★★★✩

Queer Gestreift by Kathrin Köller and Irmela Schautz ★★★★✩

My Left Foot by Christy Brown: ★★★★✩ (for uni)

Read This to Get Smarter about Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More by Blair Imani: ★★★★✩

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon: ★★★★✩

Graphic novels, comics, and webcomics:

Tidesong by Wendy Xu: ★★★★✩

Princess, Princess Ever After by Katie O’Neill: ★★★✩✩ (too short!)

This Place: 150 Years Retold: ★★★★★

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu, and Joanette Gil: ★★★★★

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and  Rosemary Valero-O'Connell: ★★★★✩

Suki, Alone: ★★★✩✩ (liked it, wish it had given me MORE)

Fine. A Comic About Gender by Thea Ewing: ★★★★★ (STRONG recommend!)

The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill: ★★★★★ (too short but SO CUTE)

[dfroza]

A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures

for the 22nd of december 2024 with a paired chapter from each Testament (the First & the New Covenant) of the Bible

[The Book of Acts, Chapter 2 • The Book of 1st Kings, Chapter 4]

along with Today’s reading from the ancient books of Proverbs and Psalms with Proverbs 22 and Psalm 22 coinciding with the day of the month, accompanied by Psalm 2 for the 2nd day of Astronomical Winter, and Psalm 57 for day 357 of the year (with the consummate book of 150 Psalms in its 3rd revolution this year)

A post by John Parsons:

"A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats" (Spurgeon). The following article, I hope, moves in the way of the Shepherd who offers the bread of truth for his sheep...

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The Apostle Paul summarized the message of the gospel by means of four empirical propositions, namely: 1) that Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures; 2) that he was buried; 3) that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures; and 4) that he was seen alive by various eyewitnesses after his death (see 1 Cor. 15:1-8). Paul went on to argue that the reality of the resurrection is the center of salvation, for if Yeshua had not been raised from the dead, his repeated declarations that he would suffer, die, and come back to life would be untrue, and therefore we would still be captive to our sins. The great fact that Yeshua was indeed raised from the dead, however, demonstrates that his mission to redeem humanity was successful, and that death has been "swallowed up" by means of his victory over the curse of sin (1 Cor. 15:36). This is the core message that Paul regarded as being of "first importance" and essential to salvation.

Now if we take a moment to reflect on Paul's summary, we soon realize that he had made certain assumptions that were presupposed in his description of the essential gospel message. First, of course, is that his summary declaration appeals to the reliability and trustworthiness of the Jewish Scriptures (as clearly indicated by the repeated phrase "according to the Scriptures" (κατὰ τὰς γραφάς). If someone were to question why they should believe what the Jewish Scriptures say, Paul would have had to provide "evidential reasons" for their authenticity, veracity, and credibility, since he couldn’t just appeal to the Scriptures to establish their truth without begging the question. This in turn would have implied appealing to the historical experience and traditions of the Jewish people, including their origin as the descendants of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their 400 year enslavement in Egypt, their deliverance from bondage during the Exodus, the awesome revelation of the Torah given at Mount Sinai, and so on.

As one trained in the learning of the Pharisees (Acts 22:3), it is likely Paul would have retold the “grand narrative” of the Jewish Scriptures, beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve, their transgression and exile from the original paradise, and the subsequent degeneracy of the human race. Paul would have explained the deliverance of Noah from the worldwide judgment of the flood and the subsequent genealogy of Noah's sons culminating in the advent of Abraham, the first patriarch of the Jewish people. The history of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be retold particularly in relation to the oath of blessing and the divine promise regarding the coming "Seed" (i.e., descendant) who would be the Heir and Savior of the world. Paul would then have reviewed the history of the Israelites and their deliverance from slavery in Egypt under Moses, the giving of the law code and the covenant at Sinai, the vision and establishment of the Tabernacle (and later the Temple in Jerusalem), and so on.

Throughout his historical review Paul doubtlessly would have focused on how Yeshua fulfilled the prophetic promises of God regarding the coming of the Messiah, quoting from the Torah, the Writings, and the various prophets of Israel. Moreover Paul would have appealed to the great oral tradition of the tzaddikim, the faithful ones of Israel, who were eagerly awaiting the coming of the Messiah.

If someone persisted to question the truth of the testimony of Scripture, it is likely Paul would have appealed to the meticulous scribal traditions of Israel, how the texts were scrupulously preserved for millennia using the most rigorous of standards of scribal transmission (soferut), and so on. Regarding the identity of Israel's promised Messiah, Paul would have appealed to the various prophetic witnesses recorded in Scripture, words from Abraham, Jacob, Moses, King David, Isaiah, Jeremiah (among others), as well as eyewitness reports regarding the miracles of Yeshua, including his own personal encounter with the risen Lord on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:3-19; Acts 26:12-18; Gal. 1:11-16; Phil. 3:3-7; Acts 17:17). Paul also would have appealed to extra-biblical sources of confirmation of the testimony, such as historical accounts of the life of Yeshua by his contemporaries, including accounts provided by the Jewish Sanhedrin and Roman officials regarding his crucifixion. In addition, Paul would have provided logical reasons for faith, including the argument from creation (Acts 17:24-28; Rom. 1:20), arguments from moral experience and conscience (Rom. 2:14-15; 2 Cor. 5:11), and arguments from intuitive awareness of God's existence as the first cause of existence (Rom. 1:18-20; Acts 17:28). It was Paul's custom to reason with his fellow Jews from the Scriptures regarding the truth of the gospel message (Acts 17:2, Acts 18:4), but to Gentiles who did not know the Torah he used logic, appeals to empirical fact, common religious sentiment, and sometimes philosophical reasoning (including quotations from pagan philosophers and poets) to make his case for the veracity of special revelation (Col 2.8; 1 Cor. 9:22; Eph. 4:17-24).

Concerning the more philosophical approach, Paul would have argued on behalf of basic monotheistic personalism, that is, the idea that there is one (and only one) God who is a omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), omnibenevolent (all-good), and who is the Source of all moral truth (Deut. 6:4-6; Psalm 139:17; Psalm 78:41, etc.). As the Supreme Being, God is One (not two or more) and the universe is a "creature" brought into existence yesh me'ayin, "out of nothing," that is, by an act of God’s sovereign will. God is transcendent over creation yet immanent within its sustenance (Heb. 1:3; Col. 1:16-17, John 1:3; Rom. 11:36). This implies that reality is "two-tiered," composed of both material and spiritual dimensions, though humanity is thought to bridge both realms by being a physical creation endowed with a spiritual soul. God is reveal in "anthropomorphic" terms because human beings are made in the divine image and likeness (Gen. 1:26), and the spiritual is discerned through analogy with the physical (2 Cor. 2:11-13).

The spiritual realm is revealed by God in two primary ways: 1) by general revelation (i.e., intuitive awareness of first principles of reason and logic that God exists and is the source of reality, see Rom. 1:19-20; Acts 14:17; Psalm 19:1, etc.) and 2) by special revelation (i.e., God interacting with select individuals in history who were entrusted to preserve and proclaim his message to others, see Deut. 4:7-8; Psalm 103:7; 147:19-20; John 4:22; Rom. 3:1-2; 9:4, etc.). Those narratives and words of special revelation esteemed as Scripture provide a semantic matrix for understanding the human condition of alienation, suffering, and the problem of death, apart from which the gospel message cannot be understood or proclaimed. For instance, the revelation at Sinai to the Jewish people distills and enshrines both the moral imperatives of human conscience as well as the need for blood atonement and deliverance from the guilt of sin (Lev. 17:11). The "korban principle" of "life-for-life" vicarious substitution was prefigured in the primordial garden (Gen. 3:21), symbolized in the sacrifice of Isaac (Gen. 22; Heb. 11:19), foretold in the Passover sacrifice of the lamb of God (Exod. 12:21-27), enshrined in the sacrificial system of the Mishkan by the "korban tamid," or daily offering, of the lamb (Num. 28:1-8); dramatized in the elaborate Yom Kippur ritual that culminated with the sacrificial blood being put over the broken tablets of the law in the holiest place (Lev. 16; Heb. 9), and so on. All of these special revelations signified the coming Redeemer of Israel, the great Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29).

The advent of "God in the flesh," that is, incarnation of Yeshua, however, is the climax of all special revelation, the ultimate "Word of God" (John 1:1-14). Yeshua, who is fully God and the Creator of the universe (John 1:1-3; Col. 1:15-17; Heb. 1:3; Isa. 44:6; Rev. 22:13, etc.), emptied himself of all regal glory by clothing himself in human flesh to become the "Second Adam" and the atoning sacrifice for the fallen human race (Phil. 2:7; 2 Cor. 8:9; Rom. 8:3). Yeshua was "born to die" as humanity's exchange (1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 5:21). The "deeper truth" of grace is thereby revealed: because of Yeshua's intercession, the verdict of the law is overcome by God's mercy and yet God is both fully just (in upholding the verdict of the law) yet the justifier of the ungodly who trusts in the divine work of deliverance given in Messiah (Rom. 3:26; Psalm 85:10; John 1:17). The resurrection further reveals not only that Yeshua died for our sins but that his sacrifice was fully accepted for our atonement. Faith in his sacrifice for your sins means you trust that his blood was shed for you, that his resurrection means that he is alive, your Living God, Redeemer, and Savior.

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Psalm 19:1-2 Hebrew audio:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/psalm19-1-2-jjp.mp3

Hebrew page:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/psalm19-1-2-lesson.pdf

Full article:

https://hebrew4christians.com/Articles/First_Importance/first_importance.html

H4C Substack:

https://hebrew4christians.substack.com/p/matters-of-first-importance-ff3

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Today’s message (Days of Praise) from the Institute for Creation Research

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Hit & Run Commentary #150

Will those celebrating the transformation of Victoria Secret from a fashion show into a podcast also demand that the Chip and Dale dancers dump the muscular men in favor of thin bookish nerds?

Bush Regime Homeland Security Functionary Tom Ridge has been rushed to the hospital following a stroke caused by a blood clot. Wonder if he recently relented to Plague Cult Alchemy.

George P. Bush has launched a campaign for the Attorney Generalship of Texas. With no other viable candidates for President, the young Bush eventually actively supported Trump. For such, he was accused of betraying his family. But don’t any other time leftists and progressives celebrate those that so openly defecate on the values of their respective families as just a normal part of the maturation process?

And when minorities can’t afford the mortgages with which they demand to be lavished for simply not being White, I guess it will also be Whitey’s fault when the properties are lost or the owners are forced to labor in order to retain them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Lady Mao) ruminated on the tragedy of tossing human beings into what she described as human garbage bins. If so, has she spoken out against those taken into custody during the Capitol Kerfuffle languishing in jail over what amounts to little more than a glorified trespassing violation?

If the Autarch is so concerned about crime, why doesn't he also take actions against knives?

Wonder if these Pentagon elites that can drone on and on about the boogeyman of White supremacy are as eloquent and schooled in the intricacies of the Islamist, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter threats.

The Loudon County school board members forbidding clapping most likely this time last year called for the defunding of the police had very little to say negatively regarding the joint Antifa/Black Lives Matter campaign to redistribute other people’s property.

Apparently applauding in regards to statements with which one agrees pertaining to public policies one opposes is an outrage that cannot be countenanced but looting merchants in response to certain judicial rulings is.

As part of the Autarch’s anti-Second Amendment agenda, it is being proposed that those who deal in firearms whose merchandise ends up being used in a nefarious manner even if the dealer violated no other discernible regulation should be held liable.  So if heart attacks rise above a certain level in a particular area, should the fast food establishments located there be held responsible?

On an episode of Batwoman laced with even more propaganda than usual, the crime was depicted as particularly outrageous not because an innocent man was shot by privatized police but because the victim was an innocent BLACK man. So is that somehow more tragic than Bruce Wayne’s father Thomas getting murdered, the event that spurred the young lad into eventually becoming Batman? Perhaps Thomas Wayne got what he deserved as part of the maligned “One Percent”. And when future audiences are retold the origins of the Dark Knight, should the new narrative be that the Caped Crusader embarked on the quest to avenge the death of his White parents if viewers need to be deliberately told the ethnicity of the actor portraying the victim before their very eyes?

Speech codes have banned the term “powwow” for being culturally insensitive. Instead it has been suggested that the term “gathering” be used. But isn’t that potentially triggering to Highlander fans? For in that series, the Gathering was the time when the Immortals commenced the ritualized killing of one another.

In an oration, the Autarch sympathetically explicated why Blacks and Hispanics are reluctant to submit to Plague Cult alchemy. Yet his doctor bride was much more critical of Tennesseans just as skeptical regarding injectable pharmacological elixirs. If the concerns of minorities are to be addressed with gingered sensitivity, Evangelicals concerned about prophetic implications, Catholics regarding pro-life concerns, and libertarians opposed to invasive government intrusion are worthy of just as much respect.

Travel guides are published to showcase the most noteworthy attractions an area has to offer. No doubt one of the most prestigious placements in such is the inside front cover. As such, are we to assume that Durham, North Carolina has little more going for it than a neon depiction of the female reproductive tract complete with boxing gloves as ovaries?

Shannon Bream of Fox News is a devout Christian. So much so that she published a regarded book on women of the Bible. It is too bad her theological thinking is deficient in that she mockingly chuckled on the 6/28/21 episode of America Reports at the hypothesis that unidentified aerial phenomena might be interdimensional in nature. Will she be as dismissive in regards to the terminology to describe how other spiritual realities such as the Resurrection or the Afterlife interact with the temporo-spatial continuum?

Contrary to a public service announcement sponsored by the U.S. Airforce, that branch of the military does not exist to promote diversity. It exists to assert technological superiority in the expanse above the territory of the United States in pursuit of the nation's defense.

Teacher union president defends Critical Race Theory as teaching accurate history. Mind you, these were the same postmodernist subversives this time 30 years ago insisting that a singular version of history did not exist. Rather, the discipline merely consisted of competing narratives regarding what is hegemonically referred to as the past.

The Autarch is threatening to send plague alchemy gestapo door to door. Am sure that will play well in the sticks.

Nearly two decades ago, no doubt many of the Democratic legislators patriotically singing on the steps of the Capitol following the 9/11 attack now side with necromongering ideologies and worldviews bent on toppling traditionalist understandings of America.

So a certain social media mogul can post video of himself riding a hydrofoil surfboard waving an American flag but to his fellow technocrats you are a threat to regime solidarity if you use your air conditioner.

Teachers Unions claim that these organizations want to defend the right of pedagogues to teach controversial epistemologies such as Critical Race Theory. To be consistent, these guilds should issue a similar proclamation in defense of Creationism or Intelligent Design forthwith.

Now it's claimed a third jab of the Plague Cult alchemy may be required. Where do the demands end? Brings to mind Picard's line from Star Trek: First Contact about continually falling back at the relentless advance of the Borg.

The Autarch’s chief propagandist admonished that criticizing of Plague Cult mendicants with the charism of evangelizing on behalf of the sacredotal alchemy among infidel peasants groveling in their hovels is a disservice to the regime and its dedicated sorcerers. That’s pretty much the same excuse invoked to crack down on free speech throughout the megadictatorships marring the twentieth century. Will those that deliberately remain on enhanced unemployment despite jobs being available will also be accused of doing the nation a disservice?

The Secretary of Health & Human Services insisted it is indeed the state’s business as to who has not acquiesced to Plague Cult alchemy because of how much it has spent fighting the pestilence. In other words, you are nothing more than the government’s whore.

If you can be arrested for not showing up for jury duty, why shouldn't the fugitive Texas legislators be arrested for a similar violation of the law?

The Autarch claims that those who question Plague Cult Alchemy are killing people. As such, the regime insists it is justified in gathering intelligence in order to curtail the dissemination of counterrevolutionary perspectives. So on what grounds do these progressive sorts gripe about any bit of information J. Edgar Hoover might have collected?

Does the Autarch intend to as carefully monitor the communications of Antifa and Black Lives Matter?

Regime propagandist Jen Psaki suggested that those spreading content categorized as disinformation should be banned from ALL social media platforms. It is assured that such is not censorship and in accord with free market principles. If so, shouldn’t it be up to each platform to decide which content will be allowed or forbidden rather than the state making such a determination?

If the vaccinated are able to contract and spread plague, don’t they bear as much responsibility for spreading the plague as the accursed Neo-Lepers?

For all this panic about the increase in Plague, it seems the death rates are still pretty much flat.

If boycotts are organized of venues that require proof of plague cult alchemy, why should we give an excrement if they go out of business?

So employers are pitching fits that they already can’t find enough workers, yet the tyrants holding power want fired the workers refusing to consent to this Mark of the Beast prototype

A private business is theoretically free to deny services to those that have not embraced invasive Plague Cult sacraments. They also ought to be forced to live with the financial ruination and repercussions of such a decision.

So apparently those insisting opposing same sex matrimony is an egregious denial of human liberties would deny the very right to eat for those withstanding the herd consensus on a dubious alchemical elixir.

A social justice degree. And what exactly does that train one for, life as an Antifa looter? If one had a legitimate academic interest in that topic, there is no reason such studies could not be pursued within the context of more traditional academic disciplines such as History, Political Science, Philosophy, or even Sociology. Unless of course the real reason for such a formalized major is that these subjects are too rigorous for those pursuing such a scholastic path.

By Frederick Meekins

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I HIGHLY recommend 150 Years Retold, as well as Arielle Twist's poetry (especially Disintigrate / Dissociate) and Reclaiming Two-Spirits. And another fantastic non-fiction/text is Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel

Can someone image Description this for me? I have a migraine but a friend suggested I post this.

-fae

[shorlibteens]

It's Indigenous Peoples Month! Swing by the library to check out these great resources from indigenous voices.

THIS MONTH'S RECOMMENDED READS

Fiction:

Firekeeper's Daughter / Angeline Boulley

A snake falls to Earth / Darcie Little Badger

The marrow thieves / Cherie Dimaline

Saints of the household / Ari Tison

Nonfiction:

An indigenous peoples' history of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#NotYourPrincess / Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leathe

Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong / James W. Loewen

Graphic Novel:

Our stories carried us here: a graphic novel anthology

This place: 150 years retold

Dakwäkãda warriors / Cole Pauls

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Episode 192 - Non-Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics

This episode we’re discussing the format of Non-Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics! We talk about what we even mean when we say “non-fiction,” comics vs. graphic novels, art vs. writing, memoirs vs. other stuff, and more. Plus: It’s been over 365 days since our last gorilla attack!

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Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

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Things We Read (or tried to…)

Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter by Julie Delporte

This Woman's Work by Julie Delporte, translated by Helge Dascher and Aleshia Jensen

Sông by Hài-Anh and Pauline Guitton

Kimiko Does Cancer by Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza

Why I Adopted by Husband by Yuta Yagi

The Art and Life of Hilma af Klint by Ylva Hillström, translated by Karin Eklund

Go to Sleep (I Miss You): Cartoons from the Fog of New Parenthood by Lucy Knisley

Nuking Alaska: Notes of an Atomic Fugitive by Peter Dunlap-Shohl

My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders by Monzusu, translated by Ben Trethewey

The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food: Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone by Joseph Tychonievich and Liz Kozik

Other Media We Mentioned

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home (musical) (Wikipedia)

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Mattias Ripa

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Displacement by Lucy Knisley

Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned and Judd Winick

Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt, translated by Helge Dascher

Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley

The Mental Load by Emma

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

What Is Obscenity?: The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy by Rokudenashiko

Homestar Runner

Button Pusher by Tyler Page

Last of the Sandwalkers by Jay Hosler

Clan Apis by Jay Hosler

Ping-pong by Zviane

Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber

When David Lost His Voice by Judith Vanistendael

Blankets by Craig Thompson

Smile by Raina Telegmeier

Dog Man by Dav Pilkey

Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide by Kate Charlesworth

Links, Articles, and Things

Harvey Pekar (Wikipedia)

Joe Sacco (Wikipedia)

Japanese adult adoption (Wikipedia)

In the name of the queer: Sailor Moon's LGBTQ legacy

The Spectre of Orientalism in Craig Thompson’s Habibi

Cultural Appropriation in Craig Thompson’s Graphic Novel Habibi

35 Non-fiction Graphic Novels by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis & Gianluca Costantini

Nat Turner by Kyle Baker

The Talk by Darrin Bell

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

I’m a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De la Cruz

Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao

Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Joel Christian Gill and Ibram X. Kendi

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Man, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito: a Graphic Memoir by Shing Yin Khor

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, and Ko Hyung-Ju

In Limbo by Deb J.J. Lee

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer

Steady Rollin': Preacher Kid, Black Punk and Pedaling Papa by Fred Noland

Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore

Kwändǖr by Cole Pauls

Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez

Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh

A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-Won

Death Threat by Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee

Palimpsest: Documents From A Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Dawud Anyabwile, and Derrick Barnes

The High Desert by James Spooner

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker

Feelings by Manjit Thapp

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Ronald Wimberly and Braham Revel

Bonus list: 21 Non-Fiction Manga

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FULL MUSE LIST & RULES UNDER THE “Read More”

Muse Count: 53

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Adora (Shera)

Entrapta (Shera)

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Horde Prime (Shera)

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King Clawthorne (The Owl House)

Willow Park (The Owl House)

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Weiss Schnee (RWBY)

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Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars Rebels)

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Miguel O'Hara (Spider-Verse)

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Trevor Sphinx (Dislyte)

Lucifer Morningstar (Obey Me)

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Luz Noceda (The Owl House)

Gus Porter (The Owl House)

Vee Noceda (The Owl House)

Hunter Wittebane (The Owl House)

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Haru (Beastars)

Rezaren Ammosine (Dragon Age: Absolution)

Fairbanks (Dragon Age: Absolution)

Qwydion (Dragon Age: Absolution)

Sebastian Michaelis (Black Butler)

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[televinita]

On YA

I will say, the one thing that bookshelf tours (at least recently) allllllways disappoint me about is that basically no one has contemporary YA anymore, except maybe a handful of the very boring and over-hyped bestsellers from the 2010s, and then there’s me out here with my 150+.

Which I’ve decided to share since I made the effort of typing it up (per yesterday’s post), so if you’ve always had the burning question “which 21st century YA novels does Televinita, a 30-something, own exactly,” today is your lucky day.

(DISCLAIMER LIST: noted ‘historical’ on a few while seeing if I had enough for their own area (no). These aren’t all necessarily ones I want to keep forever, just the one that are currently here. Also this doesn’t include any books I bought between about 2014 and 2020 that I haven’t read, which I’m sure comprise a not-insignificant amount. and my handful of Tamora Pierce & Ransom Riggs titles have been separated out because I’d put them w/ my HP and other series books.)

OK, that’s enough disclaimers, enjoy your skim maybe someday I’ll get ambitious and add authors, or at least letter separations.

[edit: done! last names added, anyway]

Just Visiting - Adler

Heartwood Box - Aguirre

Even When You Lie to Me - Alcott

The Foreseeable Future - Adrian

Law of Loving Others - Axelrod

Alone - Balog

Rules of the Road - Bauer

Best Foot Forward - Bauer

Backwater - Bauer

Bend in the Road - Biren

Cold Day in the Sun - Biren

Bittersweet Goodbye

Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books - Block

The Hanged Man - Block

Echo - Block

Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold - Block

Violet & Claire - Block

My Lost and Found Life - Bowser

Hot Lunch - Brady

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Brashares

Sisterhood 2 - Brashares

Sisterhood 3 - Brashares

Sisterhood 4 - Brashares

Geography of You & Me - Brody

Reality Gold - Brooks

The Many Lives of John Stone – Buckley

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart – Caletti

Nature of Jade – Caletti

Fortunes of Indigo Sky – Caletti

Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me – Chandler

Thief of Happiness - Chandler

Confessions of a High School Disaster - Chastain

For Real - Cherry

Very LeFreak - Cohn

You Know Where to Find Me - Cohn

Young Widows Club - Coutts

Bass Ackwards & Bellyup - Craft

Footfree & Fancyloose - Craft

Before Goodbye - Cross

Possibility of Now - Culbertson

Songs for a Teenage Nomad - Culbertson

Cherry Money Baby - Cusick

Lost - Davies

Everything I Was

That Summer – Dessen

Dreamland – Dessen

Lock & Key – Dessen

Keeping the Moon – Dessen

Start Here - Doller

A Northern Light – Donnelly, historical

Here So Far Away - Dyer

Better Off Friends - Eulberg

We Walked the Sky - Fiedler

Eden Summer - Flanagan

Tallulah Falls - Fletcher

Girls of July - Flinn

I Was Here - Forman

Just One Day - Forman

After the Moment - Freymann-Weyr

Stay With Me - Freymann-Weyr

My Heartbeat - Freymann-Weyr

Year of the Rat - Furniss

Kindness for Weakness - Goodman

Truth About You and Me - Grace

Holding Up the Earth – Gray

Unfinished Life of Addison Stone - Griffin

Hit - Grover

A Little Something Different - Hall

Ivy- Julie Hearn - historical

Breathing - Herbsman

Anything but Ordinary - Hobbs

Wanderlove - Hubbard

A Song for Summer – Ibbotson, historical

The Next Together - James

Wired Man & Other Freaks of Nature - Kaufman

The Other Side of Lost - Kirby

From What I Remember - Kramer

Love Me, Love Me Not - Koz

Anywhere But Here - Kyi

Hold Still - LaCour

Blood Secret – Lasky, historical by half

Museum of Heartbreak - Leder

Everything Beautiful in the World - Levchuck

Dramarama – Lockhart

How To Be Bad – Lockhart et. all

Open Road Summer - Lord

Catch Rider - Lyne

Fingerprints of You - Madonia

Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour - Matson

Since You've Been Gone - Matson

Unexpected Everything - Matson

Year of Luminous Love - McDaniel

Year of Chasing Dreams - McDaniel

Losing Gabriel - McDaniel

Somebody’s Baby - McDaniel

Girls in the Moon - McNally

Lovely, Dark and Deep - McNamara

Being Sloane Jacobs - Morrill

Taking Off - Moss

If You Find Me - Murdoch

Sexy - Oates

All Out of Pretty - Palmer

Falling Between Us - Parsons

Summer I Found You - Perry

Rob&Sara.com - Peterman

Blind Beauty - Peyton

Girl You Thought I Was - Phillips

Vinyl Princess - Prinz

Witch Child – Rees, historical

Sorceress – Rees, historical

Pirates! - Rees, historical

Blue Voyage - Renn

Appaloosa Summer - Robins

Fangirl - Rowell

Eleanor & Park - Rowell

The Caged Graves – Salerni, historical

Summer Hawk – Savage

The Opposite of Love - Scheerger

Summer of Sloane - Schneider

And We’re Off - Schwartz

Bridge From Me to You – Schroeder

What If It's Us? (in the absence of any future Albertalli books + the fact that I want 1 other Silvera, I’m shelving it under his name)

Comeback Season - Smith

You Are Here - Smith

If Birds Fly Back - Sorosiak

Your Destination is On The Left - Spieller

She's The Worst - Spieller

Holly Jolly Summer - Stewart

Girl Online - Sugg

Girl Online On Tour - Sugg

Girl Online Going Solo - Sugg

Somebody Everybody Listens To - Supplee

Catch the Light - Sweeney

Are You Going to Kiss Me Now? - Tanen

The Little Woods - Templeman

Psych Major Syndrome - Thompson

99 Lies - Vincent

100 Hours - Vincent

The Road to You - Whitaker

Ordinary Beauty - Weiss

When You Were Here - Whitney

Time of Our Lives - Wibberly

Someone I Wanted to Be - Wills

Palace Beautiful - Williams

Blind Faith - Wittlinger

Zigzag - Wittlinger

Gem & Dixie - Zarr

Alpha Dog - Ziegler

A Walk in the Sun - Zink

An Off Year - Zulkey

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Seconding those recommendations (I haven't read To Shape a Dragon's Breath yet, but it's on my tbr and I'm very excited for it), and also recommending

Angeline Boulley

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Tommy Pico

Joshua Whitehead

Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young

The Legend of the Skelton Man by Joseph Bruchac

Dead White Writer on the Floor by Drew Hayden Taylor (this one's a play)

"Indian" Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations' Voices Speak Out by Sierra S Adare

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, and Daniel Sousa

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection edited by Hope Nicholson

Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

This Place: 150 Years Retold by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Katherena Vermette, et al

Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci Fi Anthology edited by Hope Nicholson

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead

And then some others I haven't read yet but am excited for:

All the Dead Things by Bear Lee

The Peacekeeper by BL Blanchard

Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

Anything by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette, Scott B Henderson, and Donovan Yaciuk

How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle

Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction edited by Grace L Dillon

And there's also of course Stephen Graham Jones. Personally, the only book of his I've read that I really liked was The Only Good Indians, but he is a booktube darling, so I'd recommend checking him out, especially if you like horror

New book tumblr

Hello! My name is Cholena, and I'm hoping to start a Tumblr where I recommend diverse books. Being Native myself, I want to focus on indigenous books -- but I haven't been too successful at finding a lot yet.

So I plan to start by recommending books with other kind of diversity -- books centering, for example, queer characters, or books written by Black authors, etc. And eventually, I'll start recommending more and more books with an indigenous focus.

I'll definitely also be reblogging from other book tumblrs! Come say hi if you love to read diverse books.